"The CD is scratched.” A saying from the early millennium, it describes the phenomenon of skipping music on a damaged CD, the locked, repetitive groove. For nearly a decade, Fossilized Wilderness has been experimenting with a peculiar modification to CDJ equipment, birthed by long hours sorting through promotional CDs sent to a radio station. In embracing choppiness, a body of abrasive but bright ambient work has been constructed from the refuse of musical commodification.

The CD skip is both rhythm and tone on this LP, but if you expect the monotonous motions of a concept album, don’t: The moods here are just as granular. The six tracks shift from digital euphoria to shoegazing sentimentalism, a balanced mix of terror, plaintiveness, and joy, an impressive feat considering that the scratch of a CD produces potent nostalgia as well as Pavlovian irritation for many—a drive to eject the thing and fix the problem.

For those not growing up with it, the scratched CD is a relic phenomenon, something that happened with an artifact format. But just because it’s an artifact doesn’t mean it’s obsolete. On this LP, Fossilized Wilderness uses a sonic palette of subtly-shifting broken loops to create something new: delirious spectres rising from an ocean of plastic.

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Fossilized Wilderness is Ryan Martin, a pillar of the North Carolina underground music and arts scene. His most active artistic alias is Secret Boyfriend, with numerous cassette, vinyl, and CD releases on labels such as Blackest Ever Black and his own long-running DIY-informed imprint, Hot Releases. 

releases April 5, 2021

mastered :: Nathan Taylor

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Snow Bunting

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Silvia Kastel - The Gap
from "Silvia Kastel - The Gap" (nkt007) 
out on noisekoelln.bandcamp.com
Edition of 50 Tapes

Photo by Ben De Biel

Silvia Kastel - THE GAP

is there still a part of u that wants to live?

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Various – Pr. Raoult Secret Weapons
Release Date : April 2020 (Digital)
Label : Comic Sans Records
Cat n° : COMPILSANS2

Design by Virgile Flores
Ilustration by Acacio Ortas
Mastered by Thomas W. Jager
A&R by GBoi & Jean Mi

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Vina Konda - Glyton

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Customer’s Copy is the debut LP of contorted cosmic jazz and eccentric minimal electronics by Exotic Sin. The duo of Naima Karlsson and Kenichi Iwasa first came together for a performance celebrating the art and music of Karlsson’s grandparents, Moki and Don Cherry, before continuing as an independent unit that still incorporates some of the Cherrys’ instruments as well as their synergetic integration of music with artistic practice.

Preferring the stark contrast of analog/digital, acoustic/electric, and natural/unnatural sounds, Karlsson contributes synthesizers in addition to piano, celesta, and bells, while Iwasa collides anachronistic 90s Yamaha keyboard and guitaret with contrabass recorder, drums, kalimba, and three of Don Cherry’s instruments: one of his trumpets as well as two of his “zen saxophones,” handmade woodwinds appending reed mouthpieces to plastic plumbing parts, also called Don’s kettles after their high-pitched sound. With such timbral juxtapositions, the spirit of Exotic Sin is reminiscent of a number of leftfield jazz-meets-electronics ‘70s duos from Don Cherry’s maverick collaborations with Jon Appleton and Terry Riley to Anthony Braxton’s work with Richard Teitelbaum, İlhan Mimaroğlu and Freddie Hubbard’s Sing Me a Song of Songmy, and Muhal Richard Abrams’ electronic works. On album opener “Dot 2 Dot,” Karlsson’s measured, monastic piano sets an elegiac stage for kettle bends and absurdist electro-percussive filtering courtesy of Iwasa before a flourish of cascading ebonies and ivories together with restorative circular trumpet motifs bring the sidelong piece to a majestic resolution. Named after the character from Ridley Scott’s 1989 film Black Rain, the schizosphere of “Charlie Vincent” interfaces ominous, dystopian synthesizer with permuted organ swells before album closer “Canis Minor” sets gentle sail for a distant bed of lonesome stars.

A visual artist as well as an archivist and coordinator for the Cherry estate, Karlsson continues to learn and study Don’s compositions and approach to piano with her uncles Eagle-Eye and David, who were taught by Don himself, and his use of short piano compositions as loose scaffoldings for improvisation is prevalent across the record’s three otherworldly unfurlings. Improvisor and multidisciplinary artist Kenichi Iwasa is also known for his legendary Krautrock Karaoke night, his contribution to Beatrice Dillon’s 2020 album Workaround, and collaborations with visual artists and musicians from Linder Sterling to members of Can, Neu!, Faust, Cluster, and Wire. Recorded and mixed, with additional alto flute, woodwinds, and contrabass recorder by Robbie Lee.

Exotic Sin: Customer's Copy (excerpts)

Argentinian electronic artist Aylu's taste for wacked-out humour, interstellar synths, awkward funk bass lines and pointillistic computer music is tied together on elastic bands, thrown around and webbed into this kaliedoscopic new suite. Moments of hallucinogenic ambience emerge then elapse, tumbling into wiggling rhythmic patterns. The ghost of Jaco Pastorius haunts the mainframe, battling in real time with pinball machine synths and splattering digital percussion. The James Ferraro 'post-internet music' influence in Aylu's music is apparent, but there's something about her work that feels more rooted in the physical world. When sounds of percussion rattle like builders hard at work, and voices appear both singing and yawning, it serves as a perfect metaphor for practice; music that is made from hard graft, but with tongue firmly lodged in cheek.

"I like the temporal nature of music, being something that develops over time, which makes it different from a photograph or a painting. You can step into a narrative in a fictional world, not because it tells a story per se – I am not telling a concrete story in my music – but as a space you can enter and navigate. I like creating virtual, fictional worlds." - Aylu (interview in KRAAK's Avant-Guardian)

TR059 - Aylu - 'Frida' [sample]

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@nemerov

Budapest-based Nemerov returns to EXILES, pushing forward his experiments and explorations on codependent structures, atonal harmonics and vibrant movements. ‘Automated Dances’ presents fragmented, sorrowful beats, constantly redefined by human intentions, system limitations, underlying errors and logical conditions.

Focusing heavily on FM synthesis and highly percussive patterns, ‘Automated Dances’ presents sonic tensions, struggles and Nemerov’s ambiguous approach towards conventional electronic dance music. Following his previous release ‘Six Recital Pieces’ on Czaszka Rec., AD features deep dives into an ever-mutating stream of digital patterns that sound like pieces of glass falling on a metal cube.

music by Gábor Gyulai
artwork by Hargi Csík
mastered by Roland Nagy

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Nemerov - AD05

EN // The first compilation of Lachrymose Rescue emerges after an honest and devoted thirst for creating a sound space that threads links between its creatures. Inspired from numerous hidden and blurry reflexions  around sound ; both an auditive ointment and a tear gas, both sound that comforts tears but also makes them shed. 
An eclectic journey between emerging, passionate and intriguing artists. 

Thank you to the precious beings who participated in the birth of this venture and its first release. 

huge love

FR // La première compilation de Lachrymose Rescue émergea suite à une soif sincère et dévouée de créer un espace sonore qui tisse des liens entre ses créatures.  Inspirée de nombreuses réflexions cachées et floues autour du son ; à la fois pommade auditive et lacrymogène, le son qui réconforte les larmes mais qui les fait également couler.
Un itinéraire éclectique entre artistes émergeant.e.s, passioné.e.s et intriguant.e.s. 

Merci à ces êtres précieux qui ont participé à la naissance de cette aventure et sa première sortie. 

Immense love <3

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Softness - On The Brim

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